New Year's Day went to the hometown of Zhou Ying, the heroine of "That Year the Flowers Bloomed and the Moon Is Round", Shaanxi Jingyang An Wubao WuJia East Courtyard, the film and television effects were all over the place, and the lively market was full of "Koshiki Cake, Hot Koshiki Cake, Zhou Ying's favorite Hot KoshiKi Cake" Shouting and selling, it was really special. As the name suggests, "Koshiki cake" is a "cake" made from red dates and glutinous rice, steamed with "koshiki". The rice and dates are mixed, rich in nutrition, strong in nourishment, fresh in color, soft and sticky, fragrant and mellow, and are good for winter and spring. As a Qin person who grew up in Xi'an, Koshiki is a kind of feeling, which is equal to happiness and sweetness in memory. There are four levels of authentic koshiki: a bubble of rice, rice is rice or glutinous rice, water is clear water, soak a boil, the heart of the rice is soaked, washed several times, to foam, drain the water. The second coat, first dates, raisins, and then rice, one layer after another, one layer more than the other, and finally a layer of red dates (dates) and raisins are topped. Three-fire work, generally steamed on a high fire for about two hours, then switched to slow fire and steamed for another five or six hours. Four add water, one is to add warm water to the jujube rice in the pot, so that the jujube rice blends, and the other is to add cold water to the large pot from the venting port, so that the hot gas generated in the pot is flushed into the pot. The cake produced in this way is not only soft and hard in a moderate manner, but also has a fresh color, which is sticky and delicious to eat, and the taste is particularly beautiful. So the question is, can you make it at home if you can't buy koshiki cakes? No koshiki tank, no steamer, and steaming for so long? There is always a way to come up with it, there is an electric pressure cooker, coupled with your patience, in fact, it is quite simple to do, get ready at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and you can eat the hot cake from the fresh pot early the next morning! We have a family of three, too little can not do, so this demonstration steamed out is a minimum amount, can not finish eating can also be made into Shaanxi Qianyang snack: dumpling mash (welfare Oh, there are also free recipes). I'll go into detail in the steps...
by 澜handmade
Jiang rice or glutinous rice 2 cups
Red beans or kidney beans or honey beans to taste
Jujube to taste
Raisins to taste
1, river rice or glutinous rice, my dosage is more than the usual amount of rice used in a family of three steamed rice, the river rice is too small to lay too thin, easy to paste. For example, I usually use 1.3 cups of rice, but this time I use 2 cups. After washing the rice, it is flattened on the bottom of the pot so that the thickness is as consistent as possible.
2, sprinkle a layer of soaked red beans or kidney beans, red beans need to be soaked for more than four hours in advance, if there is no time, you can directly use honey beans. Because the amount of rice in the main ingredient is small, so I also put less beans, and this amount is controlled by myself in proportion.
3, lay another layer of jujube, I use Xinjiang Hetian jujube, super large, afraid of too sweet, so did not lay a layer, if it is a small jujube can be laid a little more, this mastery. Then lay another layer of raisins. Slowly add water, you can aim at the dates and slowly pour them in, don't wash away the ingredients. Add water to a height of about 1.5 cm above the raisins.
4, cover the pot, choose the steaming program, the appointment time is 10 hours, I started at 7:30 the night before, and the program ended at 5:30 a.m. the next day. Use this time to get full soaking of rice, no need to wait specifically.
5, a little harder, open the lid at 5:30 a.m. and add water again, then the rice is swollen up, and the water can be added to the height of the flooded raisins.
6. Cover the pot again, still choose the steaming rice program, make an appointment for 1.5 or 2 hours, so that you can eat the hot koshiki cake at 7 o'clock in the morning. What time you want to eat, the time of the whole process is calculated by yourself.
7. The hot and fragrant koshiki cake is out of the pot! The first thing to open the lid is to use a rice spatula to press the dates, which are all ripe and rotten, and it is easy to press evenly. Please forgive me, this picture is unbearable, because I can't wait to put it out and eat it!
8. A Shaanxi Qianyang snack is included: the practice of dumplings and mash. The cake that can't be eaten is hard when it's cold, it's not delicious, and I want to steam it again. Qianyang people use wisdom to recreate a way to eat, add water to the cake, crush it with a rice spatula, add mash, boil it, and then add water starch or lotus flour to hook it, you can also add brown sugar, thick and sweet koshiki mash is also quite delicious drops!
1, soaking rice or glutinous rice time needs at least 8 hours or more, so I take the first night directly into the way of rice into the electric pressure cooker, add water, electric pressure cooker reservation for 10 hours, so that the soaking time is enough, no need to wait. 2, red beans or kidney beans need to be soaked for more than 4 hours in advance, otherwise the steaming will not be rotten will affect the taste, no time to soak can also be directly used with honey beans, convenient and sweet. 3, from the beginning into the pot to make an appointment for steaming, the whole process takes 12 hours, the middle needs to add water to steam again, this is because the first steaming process, the water in the early stage has been fully absorbed into the heart of the river rice, different from rice, the water absorption of the river rice is stronger, therefore, the one-time steaming out will be relatively hard, the taste is not in place, too much water at one time will cause the "thick porridge" effect due to incomplete water absorption, so it is still necessary to steam the first time first in the case of the second time to add water and then steam the process, the cake will be fully soft and rotten, The taste is soft and sticky.
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